Traffic management: LASTMA to collaborate with FCTA

By Christopher Oji

The Lagos Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has concluded arrangements to collaborate with the Federal Capital Territory Administration (Economic, Planning, Revenue Generation & Public Private Partnership) on traffic Management and Control.

The General Manager, LASTMA, Mr. Bolaji Oreagba, made the disclosure while welcoming officials of the FCTA to his office at LASTMA Headquarters, on Wednesday.

Mr. Oreagba explained that due to the high influx of people trooping daily into the metropolitan City of Lagos, traffic congestion has become a menace that required urgent attention, necessitating the establishment of LASTMA on July 15,2000, during the administration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

The General Manager, who was represented by the Director of Rescue Department, Mr. Adeolu Joan, added that the 22-year-old agency, in achieving its mandate, has over 4,000 personnel managing the traffic across the metropolis for the desired goal of free flow of vehicular movement.

He maintained that all working ethics of the authority, including operations, were being guarded and regulated by the Lagos State Traffic Sector Reform Law of 2018 as amended. He highlighted details of the workings of the authority, including all the various departments and units that make up LASTMA.

Earlier in his address, the Head of Delegation and Secretary of the Economic, Planning Revenue Generation and Public, Private Partnership (PPP),  Agboola Lukman Dabiri, who was represented by Baba Shuaibu Adukke, said his team was on a two-day working visit to understudy LASTMA’s new and modern innovations of Road Traffic Management Control, in order to improve on their services in FCT.

He commended LASTMA for its steadfastness in traffic management and control across the State. The visiting team was scheduled to visit other LASTMA operational centres in Lagos State.

Top officials in attendance at the meeting included all LASTMA Comptrollers, Head of Training Unit, Mr. Marcauly Modupe-Ore, Director of Operations, Mr. Peter Gbejemede, Mr. Adebayo Taofiq (Director, Public Affairs Unit LASTMA), Mr. Muazu Abdullahi (Deputy Director. Road Traffic Services FCT), Mrs. Osho Deborah (Head of Operation DRTS)..

Mrs. Caroline Okon (Assistant Director Revenue, DRTS), Mrs. Halima Mahmud (Principal Planning Officer DRTS) and Mr. Abdulfatai Adewale (Admin. Officer I DRTS).